Dr. Danyaal Raza is a family doctor and Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, and Primary Care and Health Policy Scholar at St. Michael’s Hospital.
In May, Ontario’s Auditor General released a special report on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Ontario government, including medical “AI scribes” that are increasingly being used by doctors, including us. While headlines and coverage focused mainly on so-called scribe hallucinations of these AI note-taking systems, that wasn’t the biggest news in the report.
byDanyaal RazaSheryl SpithoffBrigid GoulemGaibrie Stephen
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